<p>Two Indian students undergoing treatment at a hospital here in Madhya Pradesh after returning from coronavirus-affected China have tested negative for the infection, an official said on Monday.</p>.<p>The students were admitted at the isolation ward of the government-run Maharaja Yashvantrao Holkar Hospital (MYHH) on their return from China where the novel coronavirus has killed 360 people till now.</p>.<p>The blood and swab samples' reports of the students -- aged 21 and 22 -- received from Pune-based National Institute of Virology (NIV), have found they were not infected with the new coronavirus strain, the hospital's superintendent, Dr P S Thakur, said.</p>.<p>We received their reports today," he added.</p>.<p>The duo, natives of Madhya Pradesh and studying medicine in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicentre of coronavirus outbreak, had complained of cold on Thursday.</p>.<p>The next day, they were quarantined at MYHH and kept under surveillance, Thakur said, adding their blood and swab samples were sent to the NIV for analysis.</p>.<p>He said the students, hailing from Indore and Khargone district, may be discharged from the hospital in a day or two.</p>.<p>They would be asked to take rest at home for a week, Thakur added.</p>.<p>Earlier, a 50-year-old woman and her 21-year-old son, who was studying medicine in Wuhan, had also tested negative for the deadly virus.</p>.<p>The mother-son duo, residents of Ujjain, had returned home on January 13. They were put under medical observation in their hometown after they complained of pneumonia-like symptoms last week.</p>.<p>The coronavirus is a large family of viruses that causes illnesses ranging from the common cold to acute respiratory syndromes, but the virus that has killed people in China is a novel strain and not seen before.</p>.<p>Common symptoms of the novel coronavirus strain include respiratory symptoms such as fever, cough and shortness of breath, according to the WHO.</p>.<p>The WHO has declared the coronavirus epidemic as a global health emergency.</p>.<p>The deadly virus - which first emerged in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province - has spread to 25 countries, including India (three confirmed cases have been reported from Kerala), the US and the UK.</p>
<p>Two Indian students undergoing treatment at a hospital here in Madhya Pradesh after returning from coronavirus-affected China have tested negative for the infection, an official said on Monday.</p>.<p>The students were admitted at the isolation ward of the government-run Maharaja Yashvantrao Holkar Hospital (MYHH) on their return from China where the novel coronavirus has killed 360 people till now.</p>.<p>The blood and swab samples' reports of the students -- aged 21 and 22 -- received from Pune-based National Institute of Virology (NIV), have found they were not infected with the new coronavirus strain, the hospital's superintendent, Dr P S Thakur, said.</p>.<p>We received their reports today," he added.</p>.<p>The duo, natives of Madhya Pradesh and studying medicine in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicentre of coronavirus outbreak, had complained of cold on Thursday.</p>.<p>The next day, they were quarantined at MYHH and kept under surveillance, Thakur said, adding their blood and swab samples were sent to the NIV for analysis.</p>.<p>He said the students, hailing from Indore and Khargone district, may be discharged from the hospital in a day or two.</p>.<p>They would be asked to take rest at home for a week, Thakur added.</p>.<p>Earlier, a 50-year-old woman and her 21-year-old son, who was studying medicine in Wuhan, had also tested negative for the deadly virus.</p>.<p>The mother-son duo, residents of Ujjain, had returned home on January 13. They were put under medical observation in their hometown after they complained of pneumonia-like symptoms last week.</p>.<p>The coronavirus is a large family of viruses that causes illnesses ranging from the common cold to acute respiratory syndromes, but the virus that has killed people in China is a novel strain and not seen before.</p>.<p>Common symptoms of the novel coronavirus strain include respiratory symptoms such as fever, cough and shortness of breath, according to the WHO.</p>.<p>The WHO has declared the coronavirus epidemic as a global health emergency.</p>.<p>The deadly virus - which first emerged in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province - has spread to 25 countries, including India (three confirmed cases have been reported from Kerala), the US and the UK.</p>